Sunday, post Superbowl – Game OK, Commercials – some winners. Late at night, I stumbled across Fox News Hour. Interview of Sarah Palin – she’s learned a lot since McCain mavericked his chances of Prez with his VP choice. She still doesn’t get the Tea Party though. Or, if she does, she won’t admit it on TV tape.

She see’s the parts she wants to see. They are just lost Republicans to bring back into the big tent. Or as some panelists suggested, the “new Republican voice” that will take over the party. I suppose a herd of cats could disrupt the party, or any party. I think that’s exactly what they should do. Stay loose, ready to bolt from or to any candidate that fails to understand the new message or tries to get in front of it (looking at you, Fox & Palin).

Call it the No More Bullshit Populist Party. We’re drowning in BS and liberty killing policies and debt from both the left and right.

Now that UN global warming/climate change science and inconvenient politics have been pulled to the ground like a captured boar (I’m not hurt, it’s only a flesh wound!). Serious butchers are sharpening their knives. Bloggers and curious amateurs cut it’s tendons and the mainstream media are moving in for the kill. Fresh meat? They love the smell of blood and like Lions, they’ll scare off the hyenas who made the kill.

Some would say I’m naive when I ignored the conspiracy theory aspect. Nope. I was waiting for it to hit the mainstream so I wouldn’t look like a conspiracy nut case. I’m not claiming this American Thinker article is 100%. If doesn’t fill you to the brim with “I didn’t know that, perhaps I have been misinformed by biased spin doctors”, well then, congratulations Sheepole. Please use that gate to your hard left to exit the holding pen.

Some people live for (or live on) this activist/conspiracy stuff and the parsing of phrases, he said, she said, and what did they really mean when they said that. What subtlety of word smithing will happen next? I’m not one of those people. The link above is worth your reading if you are allowed to vote.

The choice of words is always interesting. I was watching “The Desert Speaks”, a nice nature/travelogue series carried by your PBS sometimes, and HD Theater on Thursday. This episode they went into the Great Basin NP area of Nevada, a place I’ve wondered about. It’s a lot like some other surprising places I’ve found in Nevada that I’ve written about. The base elevation is 6000ft. Top of the highest peak is 13,000ft. The tv guys are talking about and showing zones of vegetation. Certain trees species grow at different altitudes (local climate conditions). We all knew that but the photography and editing is pretty damn good and you get a feel for the place. Good series to watch if you can catch it.

So, they are up in thin air territory, above the tree line, in the Alpine Zone where it’s jagged peaks, snow that never fully melts, and a soil that resembles crushed granite. The other scientist says something like “up here it looks bare of vegetation but there are ‘belly’ plants. We call them that because you have to get on your belly to see them”. I’ve seen these plants in captivity (Alpine Gardens) and it is a strong testament that life can live in the most extreme places.

Then he said “they only grow this high because they want stay out of the cold air drafting down from the peak”

Before I rant, if I was on nature walk, that guy is my first choice of a knowledgeable guide. I’ve got a feeling he’s as funny as all get out, away from the camera. Sadly, he said something we all do, too often. The plants don’t have a “choice” to make. They adapt, or not. There wasn’t a pine tree that thought “you know, I’d like my children to live up way up the slop there where things are difficult”. There was no choice to be made. They evolved to live there, to not grow too high. Who knows how many sub-species were created and failed to live up there. They didn’t choose anything. I can’t choose my parents. You gotta work with what you have.

You’re probably thinking, “Cecil, that’s not a profound observation”. Try this: If you say, “The Republicans want … or Democrats” You’ve fallen into the same trap. You gave life to something that doesn’t really live.

Do you remember when in the State of the Union speech last week when President Obama mentioned climate change (cap and trade legislation) and the Republican side of the audience snorted like they were trying to collectively suppress a monster fart and not laugh? Remember that? The Prez even acknowledged the “humph” with a smile that suggested he knew (1) he didn’t believe it either, the science was unraveling by the day but the party machine speech writers made him say it to appease the green eco-facists, no big deal, it’s dead, we all know it OR (2) I smirk at your mighty opposition! Progressives are in charge now. Suck on it.

A few days later he said “I’m not an ideologue” at the Republican’s retreat breakfast, the audience gently farted the same respectful way and he said “No, really!” and got a look on his face that suggested he and the E-Trade babies are related.

Meanwhile, the Climategate shit is finally hitting the fan in the UK mainstream media and in India and Australia. There seems to be an endless supply of UN bullshit science to pick through to get a turd to throw.. Those reporters are actually reporting, now. Their lives must have been so much easier rewriting government press releases.

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Someone should have told me O’Reilly stopped shouting down his “guests” a while back. He’s still too full of himself. Constantly talking about his ratings success. His self promotions bully pulpit is high and wide. But, if you know he knows that, actually he’s funny and clever now that he doesn’t shout down the opposing view. Great quip the other night — “I’m not Charlie Rose”.

Glen Beck? I haven’t watched or listened much. Seems like a newsreader foremost hoping to be a wanna be pundit. I watched a show where he had a (stacked?) panel of authors dissecting the polices of Woodrow Wilson and how it fit/made the Progressive Agenda of their New World Order dream. Informative. Might be worth thinking about. Maybe be worth reading some some stuff and learning about those times.

Then Beck did a whiteboard exercise with his own postit notes (photos) and guests/authors. He got all facilitator-like with his agenda showing. I’ve Been there. I’ve Done that. Won some and lost more. For every time the whiteboard works, there’s double the downside ahead when it doesn’t work. You have to be very, very good to make that whiteboard exercise for long. Glenn Beck set off my “BS” detector. Not that Democrats or Republicans are doing any better than TV news readers. Obama sets off the detector often. I thought GWB broke my BS detector. Nope, it now goes to eleven.

And still the UN thinks they are important.

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As Rep. Michael Turner put it in a congressional hearing Wednesday about Mr. Geithner’s role in the bailout of American International Group Inc., “you are absolutely a politician.” “Is that a compliment?” Mr. Geithner responded.

I don’t care who you are, that there is funny.

I’ve had the misfortune to stumble across a website (no link from me) for an hour. Well written, expressive, (nearly soap opera quality drama). Might have a Feminist bend to the wild left. Loves the arts and extrapolating the emotion she had from her film experience onto life as you/we should aspire too and not live in ignorance of, if only we weren’t so fucking stupid. I can’t follow her emotive bounces of across her imaginary walls of her chosen blogoshpere intelligentsia. She can’t decide if she’s an elite intellectual or an under appreciated pseudo elite intellectual whiny Phd. Sadly it reinforces my belief that some Phd’s are overly educated and are just as dumb as the rest of us.

I invoke the shudder rule (Aka Amber Kronenbeg Rule). Back away, back out of the rabbit hole, do not look back. Do not leave a comment. When their reality shimmers like a Star Trek transporter beam, it’s best to keep your hands near your naughty parts.

I’m not going to comment much on Obama’s State of The Union speech. The dude is awesome at oratory. He’s not in the Steve Jobs’ Reality Distortion Field class, but Obama’s very good. (Full disclosure”) I think GWB knows how to play to the audience too.

The audience climate changes over time in the face of those pesky realities. Tonight’s speech was pretty good, IMO. Still a little too progressive (leftist) for my tastes but he spanked both sides of the chamber and the media for dividing the country. Why the dems in the House seats thought that bi-partisan tongue lashing was something to cheer about deserves a whole lot of think about. Not to mention the camera showing Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to lead the cheers. Clearly they don’t see themselves as part of the problem. They don’t get it.

I could support most of what the Prez said except the TV showed the speaker of the house behind the prez. Body language suggests she’d rather be at home soaking in a bubble bath than listen to a lecture about what the American people want. Not her problem to solve. Same as it ever was. She’s in charge and the Prez can talk all he wants about centrist and reaching across the aisle. Not on her watch.

The Republican “response” from the new Governor of ‎Virginia was pretty damn centrist too. A couple of right wing jabs or test punches. But really it was wet toast response and if you believe he speaks for the Pubs, it was pretty damn centrist. OK, the Pubs get the message from the people. Obama finally gets the message. The House Dems probably won’t until they lose more seats. So giddy with their hands on the sausage grinder. Dumb is dumb and we can’t fix dumb, although I have a plan (see below)

The most oblivious to the Prez’s call to unity, was the media. He pointed out they are part of the partisan problem, one of the major dis-uniter’s (is that a Bushism?) If there’s a fourth rail in politics not to touch, he did it. I admire him for that. NBC admitted he might have called the media out. Barely. And then they launched into the game playing they planned for. Telling us what the Pub response would be. What did they mean when some attendees applauded at that? Only half the dem’s stood up and applauded for that point so that means their is little chance for…, yada yada. They didn’t hear what the Prez and their own polls say.

Of course I have modest solution. The constitution would have to be amended, but still its worth thinking about. Not term limits for the House (they are short, maybe). Think Jury Duty, don’t you love getting that in your mail box? Getting called for House Duty wouldn’t be so bad. Just like a long murder trial. Lobbyists and the party machines will pay for everything you need. Might the best lottery you could win.